Love the flowers. The first purple ones look like a phlox. Maybe phlox divaricata?
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Various cultivars of apples, in various stages of bloom:
Blueberries:
China Pearl peach:
Montmorency cherry:
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Standard papaya varieties like “Red Lady” can produce in their first year. They are not cold hardy though. For a project like that (start plant in like spring/summer, let it grow till first frost, protect, bring it out next spring for flowering and fruiting) you would probably want one of the “Solo” varieties that don’t need male and female plants. There is quite a few of them and most are reported to fruit within 9 months in optimal conditions.
I guess the main advantage to babaco papaya is that they have some cold hardiness, and would not need to be protected for as long. But as a species, they are very fast to fruit.
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South Dakota plum, the last of my plums. It is blooming with montmorency and a couple days behind wild goose plum.
Toka plum fruit set. Over half are doubles.
Shangri La Mulberry. Heaviest fruit set ever. Ready to get yakked by the frost coming Wednesday morning.
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My fruit cherry. 12 years old. I cut it back 60% last year and it hardly set fruit. Blooming.
It’s a Costco 3 graft. You can see the left scaffold blooming separate from the right and top.
Lapins, sweet red, and Raineer cherries. Seems to be immune to all the stuff that plagues my neighbors cherries. Just got lucky.
My poor cosmic crisp, bunnies ate off all the fruit shoots i let grow in last year. They were 3 ft tall and as thick as my finger. Looks like the ufo style planting is a bust when the bunny factor is weighed in. 
Would you guess this is the 4th spring for this tree. Ha
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Thanks! I’ll look into into that variety. Do you have any clue if papaya would do fine with generations of inbreeding?
LOL! People only used ‘yakked’ as a term for throwing up around where I live.
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Coriander and dill. Cilantro bolts as soon as you put it in the ground, I guess its summer time already.
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Yeah I quit trying to grow cilantro outside of late fall-winter. Otherwise it’s bolting before it germinates
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is the white stuff on the citrus just calcium from watering?
It’s actually yellow, it’s pollen. Been really dry so everything is covered in it.
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Golden Delicious Apple
Crimson Crisp Apple
Honeycrisp Apple
Flaming Fury Jumbo Peach
EarliGlo Peach
Redhaven Peach
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My wife’s parents 40+ year old Golden Delicious Apple loaded with blooms! I told them we will have to do a heavy thinning this year!
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I’m in the same boat. Covered my apricots last night (they finished bloom last week). Hoping for the best. Not sure if cover helps much… min. temps were recorded as 27F inside a cover and 26F outside.
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Our Meyer lemon seed sprouted and has 2 microscopic leaves! 
maybe we’ll have lemons in 10 years. But, in all seriousness, this was exciting to see work and took FOREVER to germinate.
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That sounds like you’re flirting with disaster. This site says 90% kill temperature is 24F and 10% kill is 27 at full bloom. More sensitive at first bloom.
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